The Parliamentary committee on Physical Infrastructure has protested the sharing financial module for the Digital number plate project Revenue collection with the Technology vending company
Officials from the Uganda Revenue Authority have been appearing before parliamentary committee on infrastructure chaired by Kaazo county MP Dan Kimosho probing the digital number plates projects by the Russian firm, Joint Stock Company Global Security.
The Commissioner General John Musinguzi Rujoki expresses shock to learn that the Russian company, M/S Joint Stock Company Global Security will get 85% and the government 15% of the collection.
However, Commissioner General John Musinguzi Rujoki shocks the committee members that the Uganda Revenue Authority was not part of the financial sharing module and they are not privileged in knowing what is in their contract.
He says that the proposed payment by motorcycle owners of 700,000 shillings to replace their number plate would be prohibitive.
Members of parliament sitting on parliaments’ committee on infrastructures want to quiz president’s Museveni involvement in the matters of the Russian firm, Joint Stock Company Global Security.
They demanded to know the why the Secretary in the Office of President Hajji Yunus Kakande wrote to Uganda Revenue Authority over this matter instead usurping the powers of the line gov’t ministries concerned Ministry of internal Affairs and ministry of security about this matter who were supposed to make a follow up on the matter.
The committee members proposed that they should interface with the president and officials in the ministry for the presidency to understand how they reached this sharing financial module which gives much revenue to the Technology vending company for the production of the digital number plates.
The committee chairperson Dan Kimosho says it is possible to interface with the president if the committee writes to him seeking permission to get his views on the matter.
